A holiday is always a nice sequel to a conference! While looking up where the conference venue was, I noticed that there was the port city of Livorno (also known as Leghorn in English) which had plenty of ferry routes. Since Livorno is very close to Pisa and I could make use of the conference bus to get to Pisa, it would be quite easy to hop onto a ferry and go somewhere interesting in the Mediterranean. Eventually I decided on a 3-day trip to Corsica (La Corse in French), starting right after the conference on 20th June. 會議後可以放假了!一早知道大會方面會在會議結束後提供旅遊車往比薩(Pisa),而當初查看會議地點時,把地圖縮小一點,給我留意到離比薩不遠的港口城市利沃諾(Livorno),那裡渡輪航線可不少,心想不如趁機體驗地中海風情,渡海到科西卡島(Corsica,法語La Corse)遊玩兩三天吧。6月20日那天一大早從會議山莊出發,開展我的三天遊。 The cruise ships to Corsica (I travelled on the left one) 前往科西卡的郵輪(我乘坐左圖的船) Dumping sand right next to a cruise ship - whose clever idea was that? 在郵輸旁堆沙,不怕刮風時會把船弄髒嗎? At Livorno, I boarded a cruise ship which was 10-storey high, with a car port in the bottom 2 or 3 storeys, underneath the cabins for